"Vaporizing?!" The voice coming through the communicator left Hao Ren and Lily stunned. The latter immediately burst out, "What do you mean, vaporizing? Why are you talking in riddles?"
"We don't know what's going on either! The monster had been quiet the whole time, but it suddenly started shouting, and then..."
Hao Ren cut him off. "Don't say anything else for now. Bring it into the city immediately! We'll go out and meet you!"
It didn't take long for the bizarre Nightmare Monster to be brought into the Grand Cathedral. Lily's beastkin guard also arrived with it—the situation in the city had been clarified, so there was no longer any need for the demi-humans to remain hidden outside. Their appearance startled several priests from Luan Cathedral, but compared with the Shadow of the Nightmare, a few demi-humans were only a minor issue.
The monster really was vaporizing.
Large amounts of smoke drifted from its body, accompanied by faint hissing sounds as though it were rapidly turning into vapor. As the smoke dispersed, the monster's body slowly shrank at a pace almost impossible to detect with the naked eye. Although the change was extremely slow, it had already continued for some time, and Hao Ren could still tell that the monster had shrunk by nearly a third compared with before. As its body diminished, it also clearly sank into an even weaker state.
In fact, the monster had always been extremely weak. Ever since it had briefly displayed signs of reason in the Black Raven Stronghold, it had remained in a half-dead state. After being sent to the holy realm, it was further suppressed by the sacred power of this place and became unusually quiet. Yet this weakness had not been fatal—until the "vaporization" phenomenon appeared.
"It's been in this state